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Custom Group Types and Fields have been deprecated. It is recommended to use the Attribute Framework capabilities instead of the Custom Group Types and Fields. As of Grouper 2.2, Custom Group Types and legacy attributes represented as Fields are no longer part of Grouper. Although, the old APIs continue to work for now; they just call the Attribute Framework. The upgrade procedure for Grouper 2.2 includes steps on the migration. |
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As shipped, Grouper groups have 6 attributes and 1 list, and every Grouper group has those 7 fields without exception (see the Grouper Glossary for a list of them and other Grouper-specific terms used in this section). Prior to Grouper version 2, deployers could augment the pool of available fields with their own Custom Fields. These were gathered into sets of custom fields to form a Group Type, and all defined group types were available to be assigned to individual groups by their ADMINs. Assignment of a group type to a group added the associated set of fields to that group. These custom fields could then be managed or accessed by the API or the UI, appear in XML exports, etc.
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